Bare nouns, number and types of incorporation

Dobrovie‐Sorin, Carmen; Bleam, Tonia; Espinal, M. Teresa

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“…Schmitt & Munn 1999, Dobrovie-Sorin et al 2006, among others) and interviews with native speakers have shown that they are in fact well-attested and rather productive in Romanian, Italian, and European and Brazilian Portuguese, among others. This fact raises the following basic alternative: either Chierchia's parameterization of Romance BNs is incorrect, or we have to consider the possibility that the BNs in (1) and (3) are not arguments in the relevant sense.…”

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“…' We will show that this nonargumental behavior is intimately connected to the semantics of Spanish and Catalan object BNs, which share semantic properties that have been associated with some types of incorporated nominals (see e.g. Van Geenhoven 1996, Farkas & de Swart 2003, Dayal 2003, Dobrovie-Sorin et al 2006: specifically, these BNs are indefinite, number neutral (unlike determiner-bearing singular nominals), and non-referential, lacking even the sort of deictically definite use observed by Stvan (2009) for certain BNs in English. These and other facts will lead us to a syntactic analysis within a version of Hale & Keyser's (1993) framework on which object BNs are restricted to a minimal [ V V N] structure similar to that which is proposed for analytic verbal expressions such as to do work.…”

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Bare nominals and incorporating verbs in Spanish and Catalan

Espinal

McNally

2010

J. Ling.

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This paper presents an analysis of bare nominals unmarked for number (BNs) occurring in object position in Spanish and Catalan, on which the BN is a syntactic complement to the verb, but not a semantic argument. After describing the properties that distinguish BNs from other indefinite expressions (bare plurals, indefinite singulars preceded by un 'a', and bare mass terms), we argue that these BNs occur in a monadic syntactic configuration in the sense of Hale and Keyser 1998, that they denote first-order properties, and that they are combined with the verb via a modified version of Dayal's (2003) semantics for pseudo-incorporation. Specifically, the proposal consists of a lexical rule that generates the class of verbs that productively accept BN objects, plus a composition rule that treats the BN as modifier of the verb. We point out the advantages of this analysis over three other well-known semantic analyses for combining verbs with property-type nominals. Finally, we show how the analysis can be naturally extended to existential sentences, which combine with BNs although, prima facie, they do not appear to meet the lexical conditions for doing so.

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Bare nominals and incorporating verbs in Spanish and Catalan

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McNally

2010

J. Ling.

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“…Pseudo-incorporation is associated with property denotations of bare noun as modifiers of the verb, rather than full-fledged arguments (Van Geenhoven 1998, Farkas & de Swart 2003, Chung & Ladusaw 2004, Dobrovie-Sorin et al 2006, Espinal & McNally 2011, Dayal 2011, this volume, although see Dobrovie-Sorin & Giurgea, this volume for some critical remarks on this view). In Romance languages, pseudo-incorporation is found productively in Spanish, Catalan and Romanian (Espinal & McNally 2011, Dobrovie-Sorin et al 2006 Incorporated nominals have reduced discourse transparency, and are more easily picked up by type-level anaphoric expressions like dét ('that') in (34c), than by token-level anaphoric pronouns like den ('it') (Borthen 2003).…”

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“…In Romance languages, pseudo-incorporation is found productively in Spanish, Catalan and Romanian (Espinal & McNally 2011, Dobrovie-Sorin et al 2006 Incorporated nominals have reduced discourse transparency, and are more easily picked up by type-level anaphoric expressions like dét ('that') in (34c), than by token-level anaphoric pronouns like den ('it') (Borthen 2003). Incorporation is associated with a characteristic interpretation reflecting a tighter relation than usual between the verb and the noun (Borik & Gehrke, this volume, Dayal, this volume).…”

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Constructions with and without Articles

de Swart

2015

The Syntax and Semantics of Pseudo-Incorporation

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Even in languages with a well-developed system of articles, such as Germanic and Romance languages, we find constructions in which the noun can appear without an article. Such constructions are often related to pseudo incorporation (cf. Borik & Gehrke, this volume), but this paper takes a broader perspective in terms of 'weak referentiality', and provides a roadmap for within and crosslinguistic variation. Bare nouns are sometimes in complementary distribution with the indefinite article (in predication, incorporation, with/without PPs), and sometimes with the definite article (in (the) hospital, play (the) piano). There is a third class of bare constructions which is neither definite nor indefinite, but plural or quantificational in nature. Here we find bare coordination (mother and child), reduplication (English from door to door = many doors in succession) and bare PPs like Dutch per jaar (= each year). The three classes are shown to be subject to different constraints within and across languages, due to the interaction of lexicon, syntax and semantics.

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“…Deve-se notar que os sintagmas nominais nus existem em muitas línguas pertencentes às diferentes famílias lingüísticas, como inglês (Chierchia,1998), línguas românicas (Dobrovie-Sorin, 2006;Longobardi, 1994Longobardi, , 2001, albanês (Kallulli, 1999), dinamarquês, húngaro (Farkas & de Swart, 2003), russo (Pereltsvaig, 2006) …”

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Caso, definitude e os sintagmas nominais no armênio

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Bare nouns, number and types of incorporation

Cited by 106 publications

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Bare nominals and incorporating verbs in Spanish and Catalan

Bare nominals and incorporating verbs in Spanish and Catalan

Constructions with and without Articles

Caso, definitude e os sintagmas nominais no armênio

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